Re: [PATCH v3] mm/page_alloc: Further fix __alloc_pages_bulk() return value

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> On Jun 29, 2021, at 12:01 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 29/06/2021 15.48, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
>> The call site in __page_pool_alloc_pages_slow() also seems to be
>> confused on this matter. It should be attended to by someone who
>> is familiar with that code.
> 
> I don't think we need a fix for __page_pool_alloc_pages_slow(), as the array is guaranteed to be empty.
> 
> But a fix would look like this:
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/page_pool.c b/net/core/page_pool.c
> index c137ce308c27..1b04538a3da3 100644
> --- a/net/core/page_pool.c
> +++ b/net/core/page_pool.c
> @@ -245,22 +245,23 @@ static struct page *__page_pool_alloc_pages_slow(struct page_pool *pool,
>         if (unlikely(pp_order))
>                 return __page_pool_alloc_page_order(pool, gfp);
> 
>         /* Unnecessary as alloc cache is empty, but guarantees zero count */
> -       if (unlikely(pool->alloc.count > 0))
> +       if (unlikely(pool->alloc.count > 0))   // ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                 return pool->alloc.cache[--pool->alloc.count];
> 
>         /* Mark empty alloc.cache slots "empty" for alloc_pages_bulk_array */
>         memset(&pool->alloc.cache, 0, sizeof(void *) * bulk);
> 
> +       /* bulk API ret value also count existing pages, but array is empty */
>         nr_pages = alloc_pages_bulk_array(gfp, bulk, pool->alloc.cache);
>         if (unlikely(!nr_pages))
>                 return NULL;

Thanks, this check makes sense to me now.


>         /* Pages have been filled into alloc.cache array, but count is zero and
>          * page element have not been (possibly) DMA mapped.
>          */
> -       for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
> +       for (i = pool->alloc.count; i < nr_pages; i++) {
>                 page = pool->alloc.cache[i];
>                 if ((pp_flags & PP_FLAG_DMA_MAP) &&
>                     unlikely(!page_pool_dma_map(pool, page))) {
>                         put_page(page);
> 

--
Chuck Lever







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